Jetadmin access for non root users

[Haitham Hamad]

How can I setup a regular users to be able to configure printers in Jetadmin. I think default setup is that nonroot users can use diagnostics and printer status options.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Try with "SUDO" or write a C script.

[Haitham Hamad]

I figured out sudo will do it but I was wondering if jetadmin itself allows non-root users to configure printers.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Write C script which launch jetadmin with permission chmod 4501.

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello,

I'm not too sure, but you might want to look into restricted sam and see if you can assign some privileges with that.

start sam with

#sam -r

Steffi Jones

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

jetadmin (aqnd associated scripts and executables) just manipulate standard Unix comands. Since a normaluser cannot shutdown and restart the spooler, then jetadmin will fail. The best choice is sudo so the allowed commands can be explicitly called out in the sudoers file.